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Academic Commons Search Resultsen-usMigrant Textuality: On the fields of Aimé Césaire's Et les chiens se taisaienthttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:161180
Gil Fuentes, Alexanderhttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:20342Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000With the discovery of the earliest known manuscript version of Et les chiens se taisaient, we learn that Césaire had started thinking about the theater earlier than had been assumed, and most important, that he had originally envisioned this work as a historical drama based on the Haitian Revolution. “Migrant Textuality” explores the several versions and fragments of the play—from the manuscript to its last authorial instantiation in OEuvres Complètes in 1976—in order to shed light on the author’s troubled relationship with the history the play refers to and the historical circumstances of its production, and to outline a topology of the many migrations of text and documents in this monumental work. The first chapter reconstructs the genesis of the manuscript by careful analysis of the textual and material evidence. The second chapter grounds the first generic shift evinced by the work, from manuscript to the first published version in the poetry collection Les Armes miraculeuses, in the context of authorial responses to shifting editorial environments in the American hemisphere. The third chapter, “Legology,” departs from the particularity of the text to theorize textual blocks in general. The fourth chapter advocates for a form of reading that oscillates between macro- and microscopic approaches, using the topologies created in the previous chapter as proof-of-concept. The critical/digital work of the dissertation lays the foundation for a future digital edition of Césaire’s powerful poetic study of the radical anti-colonial rebel.Comparative literature, Caribbean literatureag3339History and Humanities Library, Libraries and Information ServicesDissertationsThe Great Black Hole: Reading for the Ghost in Césaire’s "Cahier d’un retour au pays natal," 1939http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:152921
Gil Fuentes, Alexanderhttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14791Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000This piece is experimental in many ways. It brings play to the most serious of subjects, but not unwarranted, I hope. It is my first openly interpretive offering of some length and rigor. The thrust of the argument depends on a distortion of reading I call reading for the ghost. Jumping back and forth between contradictory statements and formal kinships I aim to paint a tableau, a figure in the carpet if you will, of the poem’s return to and from the gaps in colonial historiography.Literatureag3339History and Humanities Library, Libraries and Information ServicesArticlesDécouverte de l'Ur-texte de Et les chiens se taisaienthttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:152924
Gil Fuentes, Alexanderhttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14792Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000This brief piece tells the story of my discovery of the Saint-Dié Typescript of Et les chiens se taisaient. The text also provides a preliminary description of the typescript, a summary of the plot of the historical drama, as well as a brief comparison with the published version of 1946.Literatureag3339History and Humanities Library, Libraries and Information ServicesArticlesLa Représentation en profondeur d'Et les chiens se taisaient d'Aimé Césaire : Pour une édition génétique en lignehttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:152918
Gil Fuentes, Alexanderhttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14789Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000This piece produced for issue 33 of the Paris journal Genesis, serves as an introduction to my editorial project for the French critique génétique audience. It was written before I made advances in my understanding of textual blocks and may prove a bit dated by the time I make the edition public. I argue in here that an edition must do the best that technology allows to combine analysis with readability. In order to do so, I advocate for a different set of views: reading texts, birds-eye abstractions and virtual versions.Literatureag3339History and Humanities Library, Libraries and Information ServicesArticlesBridging the Middle Passage: The textual (r)evolution of Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natalhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:152915
Gil Fuentes, Alexanderhttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14787Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000The paper represents the most up-to-date, comprehensive and accurate account of the history of The Cahier d' un retour au pays natal in English today. I use the early productions and reproductions of the poem to argue that Césaire's early work is meant for an American (in the broad sense of the word) audience. Using textual evidence and archival research I demonstrate that the Brentano's edition of the poem is not an anomaly to be read as a different poem as has been argued before, but a central constituent in the development of Césaire's poetics in the early 40s. The paper also provides a few more details than previously available about the production of the Lydia Cabrera translation of the poem.Literatureag3339History and Humanities Library, Libraries and Information ServicesArticles